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Route Planning Step-by-Step

This latest update makes route planning more intuitive. As a hiker or cyclist, you often envision your ideal route and seek greater control over it. With GraphHopper Maps, you can now effortlessly expand your route either on the desktop or directly on the phone. Simply right-click or long-press on the map to set your start […]

GraphHopper Routing Engine 9.0 Released

We have released version 9.0 of GraphHopper, the flexible and fast open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Read more about it on GitHub, try GraphHopper Maps and read on to find out what’s new. The following contributors worked on over 40 pull requests and many more smaller changes: easbar, karussell, michaz, SachsenspieltCoding, ratrun, otbutz, jessLryan, […]

OSMAnd with GraphHopper navigation

OSMAnd is a popular OpenStreetMap-based map application for Android and iOS that supports offline maps. A lesser known feature is that you can replace the built-in vehicle profiles. For example, you can use GraphHopper to quickly calculate your route online. As the first step you need a GraphHopper API key: register here and then login […]

GraphHopper Routing Engine 8.0 Released

We have released version 8.0 of GraphHopper, the flexible and fast open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Read more about it on GitHub, try GraphHopper Maps and read on to find out what’s new. The following contributors worked on over 50 pull requests and many more smaller changes: westnordost, christophlingg, easbar, karussell, michaz, ratrun, otbutz, […]

Our New API Explorer

Exciting news! Our new API Explorer is now available, and we can’t wait for you to try it out here: https://explorer.graphhopper.com/ One of the unique features of our API Explorer is the map at the center of it all. With this feature, you can easily visualize the API response of your requests on a map. […]

Improving The Route Planning Experience in GraphHopper Maps

Route Hints In the past GraphHoper Maps showed obstacles or special cases on the route, but it wasn’t easy to find out where exactly you’ll face them and for how long. These “obstacles” could be steps for a bicycle route or a ferry or if you need to cross borders and so on. Now we […]